books & authors section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

‘The Hungry Tide’ is written by Amitabh Ghosh. The Hungry Tide tells a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

My Presidential Years is a first-hand portrayal of events of R Venkataraman’s tenure as the eighth President of India, spanning as it did the politically sensitive years 1987-1992. Never before has the tenure of an Indian President been so eventful, thorny and challenging.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

‘Freedom From Fear’ is both an essay by Aung San Su Kyi, and a book of the same name comprising a collection of her essays. This remarkable collection gives a voice to Burma’s “woman of destiny,” whose fate remained in the hands of her enemies for fifteen years, before her release from house arrest in 2010.

Answer: (a)

My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. It was released on June 22, 2004.

The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group; the book sold in excess of 2,250,000 copies. Clinton had received what was at the time the world’s highest book advance fee, believed to have been worth US$12 million; at the announcement of media personality Oprah Winfrey’s future weight loss book, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken this record.

In April 2008, the Clintons’ tax records confirmed that the advance for My Life was actually $15 million.